Another snippet concerning our FSRU28 Jul 2019 19:25
'BREAKING CITY NEWS APRIL 24, 2015 / 10:08 AM / 4 YEARS AGO
UPDATE 1-Hoegh LNG to deliver FSRU, vessels to UK's Meridian project
OSLO, April 24 (Reuters) - Norwegian natural gas shipping firm Hoegh LNG plans to deliver a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to Meridian LNG’s planned British import terminal, Hoegh CEO Sveinung Stoehle told Reuters on Friday.
E.ON Global Commodities, the trading arm of German utility E.ON, on Thursday signed a deal to buy up to two million tonnes of regasified LNG per year from Meridian, with a final investment decision expected by mid-2016.
Hoegh said it will also deliver two or three LNG transport vessels to the project.
Hoegh shares were up 5.2 percent as of 0851 GMT.
“We developed this project three, four years ago. We sold it to Meridian but we kept the right to deliver the FSRU and two or three LNG vessels,” Stoehle said.
The plan is to buy the LNG in the United States which will be taken to “Port Meridian” by LNG vessels and then transferred to the FSRU terminal which will transfer the LNG to a British pipeline and sold to consumers.
Stoehle estimated the cost of the FSRU at around $330 million and the LNG vessels at around $190-200 million each which will be financed through Hoegh LNG Partners and banks.
If the project gets the final go ahead in mid-2016, its start-up is planned for the first half of 2019.
The 20-year delivery deal with E.ON was the most important step in realising the project, Stoehle said.
The Port Meridian FSRU will be Hoegh LNG’s second in Europe.'
I just wonder what stopped the project.......perhaps at that time the FID didn't stack up? Is the demand higher now?.........Vitol will probably pledge to offtake all 5 million tons per year ? The RNS said the offtaker had requested we look into the project...........that scenario sounds likely and would be fabulous !!!